Mathematics Materials for Third, Fourth and Fifth Grade

Teach, review, assess and prep with self-grading, time-saving Common Core aligned Boom Cards. Find materials on operations, fractions, decimals, measurement, data and geometry for third, fourth and fifth grade.

ELA Test Prep (or Teaching) for Third, Fourth, and Fifth Grade Standards

Last-minute, paperless teaching and test prep resources that grade themselves. Aligned to standards for third, fourth, and fifth graders meet standards, you can use these materials to practice and teach, evaluate progress and/or pre-test.

Teaching Time: First through Fourth Grade Materials

Review or teach time for first, second, third, and fourth grades with just right learning bites for 1:1 or interactive whiteboard. Want something more challenging? Try teaching it in Spanish, Italian or French.

The Research is In: Our Approach to Testing is Wrong

In the past 16 years we’ve imaged brains and tested students. We have no better information about how to use testing to improve schools now than when we started. We do now know that human variability is not mere noise to be ignored by categorical systems, such as standardized testing, but rather it directly affects outcomes. It is time to walk away from the Twentieth Century obsession with standardized testing and develop a Twenty-First Century approach that combines neuroscience learning with effective intervention.

HR 610

HR 610 wants parents to abandon at-risk students in exchange for $370 in vouchers per kid. Is the current focus of ESSA just right? That is worth a closer work (can you say testing third graders?). But is throwing it out the solution? HR 610 does just that.

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